Contact: Tammy Lane • First Posted: Monday, February 14, 2011

Winners in the seventh annual Keep It Real Video/Internet Contest received nearly $3,000 in prize money at the Feb. 9 awards program at the Kentucky Theatre.  

New this year was a Best Original Music category. The top entry, “Be Different,” was created by Zachary Cole Platt, Sam Jones, Eric Choi and David Agtarap of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. They will receive free studio time and mix time with Long Island Recording Studios.

The Keep It Real campaign is a youth-driven community effort to educate students about the risks of drinking alcohol. The premise is that youth are more likely to understand the message when they help design the message.

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Other winners from Fayette County Public Schools:

• Best Script winner: “It’s Not Gonna,” Henry Clay High School; Keanu Jones.
• Best Script honorable mention: “One,” Paul Laurence Dunbar High School; Clay Winstead, Andrew Brown, Jacob Redenbaugh, Neil Sexton and Austin Vincent.
• Most Original: “Stethoscope,” Lexington Day Treatment; Louis Sanford and Wayne Hubbard.
• Best Art Direction honorable mention: “Spotlight,” Dunbar; Maddie Hatcher, Maggie Rhodus, Morgan McEldowney, Spencer Fair, Maggie Shell and Erin Adkins.
• Best Audio: “Consider This,” Henry Clay; Dalton Wade, Josh Cain, Corbin York, Keanu Jones, Brandon Barnett and Dylan York.
• Best Depiction of Message winner: “The Bucket List,” Dunbar; Kelly Sanders, Mckayla Barry, Gabby Purdy and Morgan McEldowney.
• Best Depiction of Message honorable mention: “Alcohol Can Only Let You Down,” Dunbar; Ayana Wheeler, Paige Noe, Laurel Noe, Abby Kovacs and Kyndall Lanter.
• Best Graphic Design honorable mention: “We’re Over,” Lexington Day Treatment; Raquel Lopez and Bree Gibbins.
• Best Editing honorable mention: “Remember It All,” Dunbar; Sarah Widy, Zane Saghaian, Kalen Plummer and Chuck Bryan.
• Best Comedy winner: “Embarrassing Enough,” Henry Clay; Christopher Thompson, Daniel Kiesling, Matthew Powell and Hayes Gardner.
• Best Comedy honorable mention: “The Least Interesting Man in the World,” Dunbar; Grant Williams, Spencer Fair, Kyle Monthie and Will Callebs.

Keep It Real is a public/private partnership is spearheaded by Bluegrass Prevention Center and facilitated by the Kentucky Agency for Substance Abuse Policy (KY-ASAP), Fayette County Local Board, and the Lexington Mayor’s Alliance on Substance Abuse.  Funding is provided through the Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws Initiative and the Kentucky State Police.

Other sponsors include Central Baptist Hospital, Video Editing Services, Fusioncorp Design Mediahouse, National Cinemedia, Lynn Imaging, Clear Channel Radio, Lexington Legends, WKYT-TV, the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, and the Lexington Family Magazine.